{"id":203,"date":"2014-07-07T18:29:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/07\/keeping-up\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:10:39","slug":"keeping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/keeping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

What we too often do not know these days is that Climb Via was rolled out on April 3 and what it\u2019s procedures are, that the Houston Metroplex converted over to an all new airspace management plan on May 29 and all the old STARs and SIDs went bye-bye, that the AIM was just revised, that there is an FAA VOR shutdown program on the horizon, and that there are over 500 ADS-B towers in operation around the U.S today. Conversations with leaders from the NBAA, the FAA, IBAC\/IS-BAO, flight department managers, and individual pilots reveal numerous examples of our failures to keep up and agreement that we have a growing problem in aviation.<\/p>\n

What to do? It is clear that change and the accelerating rate at which it is arriving is not going to go away. A review of FOMs and job descriptions from a sampling of flight departments and commercial operators reveals that, as an industry, we have not identified the problem and formalized a process solution. No one is designated as the \u2018Manager of Keeping Up with Change\u2019, the person responsible for keeping up with what\u2019s happening and getting the word out within the organization. We haven\u2019t identified the need, assigned the task, and described the duties and responsibilities (two examples \u2013 getting on the FAA website and signing up for the relevant alerts and notices that are available, and monitoring NBAA Air Mail). So guess what? In a world in which we are understandably focused on a safe and proficient response to owner\/client demand that often challenges the resources available, we are not keeping up. Well folks, it\u2019s time for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"iStock<\/span>We in the world of aviation operations have a reality that is increasingly creating problems for us. That reality is the amount of change that is taking place and the accelerating rate of that change. The problem is how flight departments, and we as individual pilots, are struggling to keep up with it.<\/p>\n

There is general agreement that technology, complexity, and globalization are among the principal forces driving change in the world at large and clearly in the world of aviation as well. Examples abound. In a recent series of classes on RNAV\/PBN and Instrument Procedures, I asked each class for a show of hands if you were currently using iPads in the cockpit. The majority were. The follow up Shout Out Question, with a draft Shiner Bock as the prize (we were in Texas!) was \u2013 \u201cWhen was the iPad first rolled out by Apple?\u201d The answer \u2013 in 2010, less than four years ago!<\/p>\n

It is said that we have more computing power in our individual smartphone today than was available at all of NASA in 1969, when we went to the moon. There are at least 6 GPS systems in space today; prior to 1990 there were none. There are over 14,000 radio stations on our planet today that stream their content over the internet, making it available to anybody with a connection wherever they are. You can finish your Aircrew Academy training course on Winter Operations from the back seat of the taxi on the way to the Hong Kong airport. Google Earth will allow you to visually check out a house or street corner almost anywhere in the world with a few mouse clicks. We can connect face to face with friends all over the planet via Skype or Face Time, and drones are knocking on aviation\u2019s front door. There won\u2019t be a pilot and a dog on the flight deck of the future because there isn\u2019t going to be a flight deck. But, you know all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-technologyglobalization-rnavpbninstrument-proceduresipadgpsclimb-viasidstaraimvor-shutdownads-bfaanbaaibacis-baonbaa-air-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}